Review of Remember Me (2010) by Jenniferf — 19 Mar 2010

I have been reading these comments and I can't help but feel like those who are smashing the movie and calling it "exploitative" in its ending are seriously missing the whole point, and therefore have missed out on a meaningful movie-watching experience.

When I saw it, I was shocked by the ending of course, but I also felt that it pulled me back to thinking about and remembering a time that was indeed terrible and disturbing, I have no qualms about that fact, but how many people like Tyler were just in the wrong place at the wrong time? A movie that employs the use of an ending such as 9/11 is in no way exploitative, it is simply using history in a movie to pull on viewers' real-time emotions and memories in order to make them "feel" the movie more.

...it is a very clever tactic! To say that "Remember Me" was exploitative in its ending by using 9/11 would also mean that "Sophie's Choice" with Meryl Streep was exploitative and offensive with its use of the Holocaust (which it wasn't), or that Titanic was offensive (which it wasn't) or that ANY movie that calls on the history of our country, our neighbouring countries, or our world is offensive and should not be remembered in movies and therefore people should just forget about them and move on, because all movies should have a happy ending and Gosh forbid that we are moved to remember what happened to all those people involved in those terrible happenings.

All in all, I think "Remember Me" was a brave and moving film with exceptional performances by young and talented actors, and the ending really caused me to think about all the people like the fictional Tyler who lost their lives because of what happened on September 11th, 2001.

I thank the creators of "Remember Me" for finally making a movie that really made me FEEL, because nowadays movies like that are few and far between.